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Coordinates: 54.90°N 1.52°W. Washington is a town in the City of Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England. Historically part of County Durham, it is the ancestral settlement of the local Washington family, from which the first President of the United States George Washington descended.
Type: Town with 53,500 residents. Description: town in the City of Sunderland, in Tyne and Wear, England. Categories: unparished area and locality. Location: Sunderland, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe. View on OpenStreetMap.
North Tyneside. South Tyneside. Sunderland. Tyne and Wear ( / ˌtaɪn ... ˈwɪər /) is a ceremonial county in North East England. It borders Northumberland to the north and County Durham to the south, and the largest settlement is the city of Newcastle upon Tyne . The county is largely urbanised.
Washington is located in the county of Tyne & Wear, North East England, three miles north-east of the town of Chester-le-Street, five miles south-east of the major town of Gateshead, 98 miles south-east of Edinburgh, and 241 miles north of London.
Apr 29, 2001 · Washington (Tyne and Wear, North East England, United Kingdom) with population statistics, charts, map, location, weather and web information.
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Washington, Tyne and Wear. Washington is a new town in Sunderland, in the northeast of England. Historically it was part of County Durham. It joined a new county in 1974 with the creation of Tyne and Wear. Washington is an equal distance from the centres of Newcastle upon Tyne, Durham and Sunderland, and it has close ties to all three cities.
The Tyne and Wear Metro is an overground and underground light rail rapid transit system [4] [5] [6] serving Newcastle upon Tyne, Gateshead, North Tyneside, South Tyneside, and the City of Sunderland (together forming Tyne and Wear ). It has been described as the "first modern light rail system in the United Kingdom". [7]
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